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{{letterhead
|Date=5/17 January 1889
|To=[[Hermann Wolff]]
|Place=[[Frolovskoye]]
|Language=French
|Autograph={{locunknown}} <ref name="note1"/>
|Publication={{bibx|2012/21|Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft Mitteilungen}} (2012), p. 118 (original), p. 118–119 (German translation)
|Notes=Original incorrectly dated "1888"
}}
==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=French
|Translator=Brett Langston
|Original text={{right|5/17 Janvier {{sic|[18]88|1889}}<br/>Klin, près Moscou}}
{{centre|Cher Monsieur Wolff!}}
A peine avais-je {{sic|expèdié|expédié}} hier ma lettre, que la Votre m'est arrivée. Elle contient une
{{sic|rèponse|réponse}} à ma question quant aux dâtes des concerts. Veuillez faire savoir à M[onsieu]r
Wüllner que je voudrais faire entendre au public de ''Cologne'' ma 4me {{sic|simphonie|symphonie}}, mais
que, si, par hasard, il tenait absolument à la Suite № 3, — je ne demande pas mieux que de la
conduire. A lui de {{sic|dècider|décider}}. Vous me direz ce que M[onsieu]r Wüllner aura choisi quand je serai à Berlin, c'est à dire le 5 ou le 6 {{sic|Fevrier|Février}}.

Quant au programme de Dresde, c'est encore la {{sic|simphonie|symphonie}} № 4 que je
voudrais {{sic|éxécuter|exécuter}}, mais si Vous me conseillez plutôt la suite № 3, — je veux bien! Je
serai bien content de revoir ''Emile Sauer'' à Dresde, — c'est une vieille connaissance!

Au revoir, cher ami!
{{right|P. Tschaïkovsky}}

|Translated text={{right|5/17 January {{sic|1888|1889}}<br/>[[Klin]], near [[Moscow]]}}
{{centre|Dear Monsieur [[Wolff]]!}}
I had only just sent my letter yesterday when yours reached me <ref name="note2"/>. It contains the answer to my question about the date of the concerts. Please make Monsieur Wüllner <ref name="note3"/> aware that I should like the [[Cologne]] public to hear my [[Symphony No. 4|4th symphony]], but if it should happen that he were to absolutely insist on the [[Suite No. 3]], then I could not ask for anything better than to conduct that there. It is for him to decide. You may inform me of Monsieur Wüllner's decision when I am in [[Berlin]], that is, on 5 or 6 February <ref name="note4"/>.

As for the programme in [[Dresden]], it is also the [[Symphony No. 4]] that I wish to perform, but if you advise me otherwise then I should like the [[Suite No. 3]] instead! I shall be happy to see ''[[Emil von Sauer|Emile Sauer]]'' again in [[Dresden]] — he is an old acquaintance!<ref name="note5"/>

Until we meet, dear friend!
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">The autograph was auctioned in 1995 at Sotheby's, [[London]], and was subsequently owned by the {{F-Pmlm}} in [[Paris]], until that institution closed in 2015.</ref>
<ref name="note2">This earlier letter from Tchaikovsky to [[Hermann Wolff]] has not yet come to light.</ref>
<ref name="note3">Franz Wüllner (1832–1902), German composer and conductor, who was the kapellmeister of the Gürzenich Orchestra in [[Cologne]].</ref>
<ref name="note4">Tchaikovsky conducted his [[Suite No. 3]] in [[Cologne]] on 31 January/12 February 1889.</ref>
<ref name="note5">On 8/20 February 1889, Tchaikovsky conducted his [[Symphony No. 4]], and [[Piano Concerto No. 1]] (soloist [[Emil von Sauer]]) at the Philharmonic Society concert in [[Dresden]].</ref>
</references>

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